BILL NUMBER: SCR 4	CHAPTERED  03/31/00

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   38
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   MARCH 31, 2000
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   MARCH 27, 2000
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 26, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 26, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 24, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Solis
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Alquist, Aroner, Bates,
Battin, Baugh, Bock, Brewer, Briggs, Calderon, Campbell, Cardenas,
Cardoza, Cedillo, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Cunneen, Davis, Dickerson,
Ducheny, Dutra, Firebaugh, Florez, Frusetta, Gallegos, Havice,
Hertzberg, House, Jackson, Keeley, Knox, Kuehl, Leach, Lempert,
Longville, Lowenthal, Maddox, Maldonado, Margett, Mazzoni,
McClintock, Migden, Nakano, Olberg, Oller, Robert Pacheco, Rod
Pacheco, Papan, Pescetti, Reyes, Romero, Runner, Scott, Shelley,
Soto, Steinberg, Strickland, Strom-Martin, Thomson, Torlakson,
Villaraigosa, Vincent, Washington, Wayne, Wesson, Wiggins, Wildman,
Wright, and Zettel)

                        JANUARY 7, 1999

   Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 4--Relative to Women's History
Month.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 4, Solis.  Women's History Month and International Women's
Day.
   This measure would designate the month of March 2000 as Women's
History Month and would urge all Californians to join in the
celebration of International Women's Day on March 8, 2000.




   WHEREAS, American women of every race, class, and ethnicity have
participated in the founding and building of our nation and have
played a critical role in shaping the economic, cultural, and social
fabric of our society, not in the least of ways through their
participation in the labor force, working both inside and outside the
home; and
   WHEREAS, Women have been leaders in every movement for social
change, including their own movement for suffrage and equal rights,
the fight for emancipation, the struggle to organize labor unions,
and the civil rights movement, as well as leading the call for peace,
and organizing to preserve the environment; and
   WHEREAS, In light of these efforts and the achievements of all
American women, we take this opportunity to honor women and their
contribution to the development of our society and our world; and
   WHEREAS, The celebration of Women's History Month will provide an
opportunity for schools and communities to focus attention on the
historical role and accomplishments of the women of California and
the United States, and for students, in particular, to benefit from
an awareness of these contributions; and
   WHEREAS, Women's History Month will include International Women's
Day on March 8, originally proclaimed in 1910 to recognize and
commemorate the valuable contributions women have made to the labor
movement in improving working conditions, and thus bettering people's
lives; and
   WHEREAS, Women's History Month will be not only a call to
acknowledge the outstanding American women whose names we know, but
also a call to pay homage to the many women who have anonymously
shaped our collective past; and
   WHEREAS, The observance of Women's History Week was initiated by
the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women in 1978, a
celebration that evolved into Women's History Month, commemorated
throughout the nation by schools, historians, and community groups;
and
   WHEREAS, The achievements of women who have gone before us will
enable contemporary women and men to create tomorrow's history by
working toward an end to physical and sexual violence against women,
discrimination and harassment in employment, and the relegation to
poverty status of many women, and by advocating for the full
participation of women in the economic and political arena, the
provision of adequate child care, respect for those who choose
homemaking and motherhood as their career, and equal access to all of
the opportunities this great nation has to offer; and
   WHEREAS, The story of the women's rights movement deserves telling
because of the significance and scope of women's role in making
history and shaping the cultural and societal makeup of California
and the United States, and because it is a rich part of our common
heritage, a story of gallantry and devotion to the belief that the
opportunity for complete human dignity should not be denied to
one-half of the state and the nation; and
   WHEREAS, The National Women's History Project has  adopted "An
Extraordinary Century for Women/Now Imagine the Future!" as the 2000
theme for Women's History Month, inviting all Californians to see
women's lives and accomplishments as an essential part of our
national history, recognizing that history looks very different when
the contributions, accomplishments, and perspectives of women are
added to our shared legacy as Americans, thereby increasing our
understanding of the world in which we live today and expanding our
possibilities for the future; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the Legislature of the State of California
takes pleasure in joining the California Commission on the Status of
Women, the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women, the Los
Angeles County Commission for Women, and other city, county, and
community commissions for women in California in honoring the
contributions of women, and proclaims the month of March 2000 as
Women's History Month; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Legislature of the State of California urges
all Californians to join in the celebration of International Women's
Day on March 8, 2000; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the Chair of the California Commission on the Status
of Women, the Chair of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of
Women, and the National Women's History Project, for distribution to
appropriate organizations.
